Gloria Steinem - How The CIA
Used Feminism To Destabilize Society
By Henry Makow, Ph.D.

TooGoodReports.com

3-19-2

"In the 1960´s, the elite media invented second-wave
feminism as part of the elite agenda to dismantle civilization and create
a New World Order."

Since writing these words last week, I have discovered
that before she became a feminist leader, Gloria Steinem worked for the
CIA spying on Marxist students in Europe and disrupting their meetings.
She became a media darling due to her CIA connections. MS Magazine, which
she edited for many years was indirectly funded by the CIA.

Steinem has tried to suppress this information, unearthed
in the 1970´s by a radical feminist group called "Red Stockings."
In 1979, Steinem and her powerful CIA-connected friends, Katharine Graham
of the Washington Post and Ford Foundation President Franklin Thomas prevented
Random House from publishing it in "Feminist Revolution." Nevertheless
the story appeared in the "Village Voice" on May 21, 1979.

Steinem has always pretended that she had been a student
radical. "When I was in college, it was the McCarthy era," she
told Susan Mitchell in 1997, "and that made me a Marxist." (Icons,
Saints and Divas: Intimate Conversations with Women who Changed the World
1997. p 130) Her bio-blurb in June 1973 MS. Magazine states: "Gloria
Steinem has been a freelance writer all her professional life. Ms magazine
is her first full-time salaried job."

Not true. Raised in an impoverished, dysfunctional family
in Toledo Ohio, Steinem somehow managed to attend elite Smith College,
Betty Friedan´s alma mater. After graduating in 1955, Steinem received
a "Chester Bowles Student Fellowship" to study in India. Curiously,
an Internet search reveals that this fellowship has no existence apart
from Gloria Steinem. No one else has received it.

In 1958, Steinem was recruited by CIA´s Cord Meyers
to direct an "informal group of activists" called the "Independent
Research Service." This was part of Meyer´s "Congress for
Cultural Freedom," which created magazines like "Encounter"
and "Partisan Review" to promote a left-liberal chic to oppose
Marxism. Steinem, attended Communist-sponsored youth festivals in Europe,
published a newspaper, reported on other participants, and helped to provoke
riots.

One of Steinem´s CIA colleagues was Clay Felker.
In the early 1960´s, he became an editor at Esquire and published
articles by Steinem which established her as a leading voice for women´s
lib. In 1968, as publisher of New York Magazine, he hired her as a contributing
editor, and then editor of Ms. Magazine in 1971. Warner Communications
put up almost all the money although it only took 25% of the stock. Ms.
Magazine´s first publisher was Elizabeth Forsling Harris, a CIA-connected
PR executive who planned John Kennedy´s Dallas motorcade route. Despite
its anti establishment image, MS magazine attracted advertising from the
crème of corporate America. It published ads for ITT at the same
time as women political prisoners in Chile were being tortured by Pinochet,
after a coup inspired by the US conglomerate and the CIA.

Steinem´s personal relationships also belie her
anti establishment pretensions. She had a nine-year relationship with Stanley
Pottinger, a Nixon-Ford assistant attorney general, credited with stalling
FBI investigations into the assassinations of Martin Luther King, and the
ex-Chilean Foreign Minister Orlando Latelier. In the 1980´s, she
dated Henry Kissinger. For more details, see San Francisco researcher Dave
Emory.

Our main misconception about the CIA is that it serves
US interests. In fact, it has always been the instrument of a dynastic
international banking and oil elite (Rothschild, Rockefeller, Morgan) coordinated
by the Royal Institute for Internal Affairs in London and their US branch,
the Council for Foreign Relations. It was established and peopled by blue
bloods from the New York banking establishment and graduates of Yale University´s
secret pagan "Skull and Bones" society. Our current President,
his father and grandfather fit this profile.

The agenda of this international cabal is to degrade
the institutions and values of the United States in order to integrate
it into a global state that it will direct through the United Nations.
In its 1947 Founding Charter, the CIA is prohibited from engaging in domestic
activities. However this has never stopped it from waging a psychological
war on the American people. The domestic counterpart of the "Congress
for Cultural Freedom" was the "American Committee for Cultural
Freedom." Using foundations as conduits, the CIA controlled intellectual
discourse in the 1950´s and 1960´s, and I believe continues
to do so today. In The The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of
Arts and Letters, Francis Stonor Saunders estimates that a thousand books
were produced under the imprint of a variety of commercial and university
presses, with covert subsidies.

The CIA´s "Project Mockingbird" involved
the direct infiltration of the corporate media, a process that often included
direct takeover of major news outlets. "By the early 1950´s,"
writes Deborah Davis, in her book Katharine the Great : Katharine Graham
and Her Washington Post Empire, the CIA owned respected members of the
New York Times, Newsweek, CBS and other communication vehicles, plus stringers,
four to six hundred in all." In 1982 the CIA admitted that reporters
on the CIA payroll have acted as case officers to agents in the field.
Philip Graham, publisher of the Washington Post, who ran the operation
until his "suicide" in 1963, boasted that "you could get
a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple of hundred dollars
a month."

I was born in 1949. Idealists in my parent´s generation
were disillusioned when the Communist dream of universal brotherhood turned
out to be a shill for a brutal despotism. My own generation may discover
that our best instincts have also been manipulated and exploited. There
is evidence that the 60´s drug counter culture, the civil rights
movement, and anti-war movement, like feminism, were CIA directed. For
example, the CIA has admitted setting up the National Student Association
as a front in 1947. In the early 1950´s the NSA opposed the attempts
of the House Un American Activities Committee to root out Communist spies.
According to Phil Agee Jr., NSA officers participated in the activities
of SNCC, the militant civil rights group, and Students for a Democratic
Society, a radical peace group.

According to Mark Riebling, the CIA also may have used
Timothy Leary. Certainly the agency distributed LSD to Leary and other
opinion makers in the 1960s. Leary made a generation of Americans turn
away from active participation in society and seek fulfillment "within."
In another example of the CIA´s use of drugs to interfere in domestic
politics, Gary Webb describes how in the 1980´s, the CIA flooded
Black ghettos with cocaine.

I won´t attempt to analyze the CIA´s motivation
except to suggest what these acts have in common: They demoralized, alienated
and divided Americans. The elite operates by fostering division and conflict
in the world. Thus, we don´t realize who the real enemy is. For the
same reason, the CIA and elite foundations also fund the diversity and
multi cultural movements.

Feminism has done the most damage. There is no more fundamental
yet delicate relationship in society than male and female. On it depends
the family, the red blood cell of society. Nobody with the interests of
society at heart would try to divide men and women. Yet the lie that men
have exploited women has become the official orthodoxy.

Man loves woman. His first instinct is to nurture ("husband")
and see her thrive. When a woman is happy, she is beautiful. Sure, some
men are abusive. But the vast majority have supported and guided their
families for millennium.

Feminists relentlessly advance the idea that our inherent
male and female characteristics, crucial to our development as human beings,
are mere "stereotypes." This is a vicious calumny on all heterosexuals,
95% of the population. Talk about hate! Yet it is taught to children in
elementary schools! It is echoed in the media. Lesbians like Rosie O´Donnell
are advanced as role models.

All of this is calculated to create personal confusion
and sow chaos among heterosexuals. As a result, millions of American males
are emasculated and divorced from their relationship to family (the world
and the future.) The American woman has been hoodwinked into investing
herself in a mundane career instead of the timeless love of her husband
and children. Many women have become temperamentally unfit to be wives
and mothers. People, who are isolated and alone, stunted and love-starved,
are easy to fool and manipulate. Without the healthy influence of two loving
parents, so are their children.

Feminism is a grotesque fraud perpetrated on society
by its governing elite. It is designed to weaken the American social and
cultural fabric in order to introduce a friendly fascist New World Order.
Its advocates are sanctimonious charlatans who have grown rich and powerful
from it. They include a whole class of liars and moral cripples who work
for the elite in various capacities: government, education and the media.
These imposters ought to be exposed and ridiculed.

Women´s oppression is a lie. Sex roles were never
as rigid as feminists would have us believe. My mother had a successful
business in the 1950´s importing watch straps from Switzerland. When
my father´s income increased, she was content to quit and concentrate
on the children. Women were free to pursue careers if they wanted to. The
difference was that their role as wife and mother was understood, and socially
validated, as it should be.

Until Gloria Steinem and the CIA came along.

Comment

From ChandRa
katalinmigray@cox.net
3-19-2

As a woman, I found Makow's article to be absurd. Even
if what he says about Gloria Steinem is true (after perusing his website,
though, I would doubt anything he says),stating that her supposed connection
with the CIA proves that feminism was created by the elite to bring about
the New World Order is akin to saying that the anti-war protests were
created to bring about the New World Order, because there were infiltrators.
While I was on Henry Makow's site I wrote down a few more of his beliefs,
which I would love to share and comment on.

One of his articles is titled "For Freedom's Sake
- Remove Feminist Professors". In it he claims that feminism is a
lesbian marxist ideology, and criticizes feminists for being "frankly
dedicated, not to the preservation of Judeo-Christian civilization but
to it's overthrow." Henry Makow also states in this article that
a book written by Dick Cheney's wife is a fine book (he's obviously a
fan). Which brings me to another article he wrote on his concepts of a
feminine woman. According to Henry Makow, a feminine woman "is not
driven by personal ambition" because a "career is a feminist
lie". "She wants to be enlisted by a man" because "she
depends on a man".

Makow has advice for men when it comes to marrying a
woman. In Makow's words, "women's liberation has taught women to
pursue sex for it's own sake, as though they were men. This is not feminine.
If a man prefers a new car, why would he marry a "used" woman?"
And as for marital bliss? "They make decisions together, but he
has the last word". Of course his comments on the amazing play "The
Vagina Monologues" were just as enlightening. I watch it on HBO
when it's on. I know the play by heart. Makow misquotes Ensler's monologues
constantly to make a point. His point.

He also wrote, regarding "The Vagina Monologues",
"This play partly exemplifies why radical Islam has declared war
on America." "Muslim fundamentalists believe their culture is
threatened. They are fighting to preserve their wives and children who
are the future. If their wives are infected by our homosexuality, they
will insist on becoming "independent" like men." I am
curious as to why Makow constantly equates the seeking of equality by women
with homosexuality. Unless he's afraid that once a woman is independent,
she wouldn't need a man, and perhaps doesn't actually prefer them (which
isn't true, depending on the man and the woman).

Additionally, he aptly reveals his wit and intelligence
when he attempts to enter the mind of Ensler, who actually is witty and
intelligent. Ensler, by the way, wrote "The Vagina Monologues".
He also faults Ensler for telling Times that "the patriarchal (i.e.)
nuclear family is a deadly institution". Makow counters that "the
nuclear family is the primary institution of herosexuality", which
he says "satisfies the profoundest psychological needs of both sexes".
He also seems to believe he knows the minds and make-up of all feminists.
He states that feminists are Marxists, lesbians, and you're either a
Jew/Christian or a Feminist.

My friend, who pointed his Steinem article out to me
on your site, is a Jewish male and a feminist. I have many female friends
who are Jewish and feminist. As a matter of fact a lot of Jewish women
are feminists. I was raised Catholic, am more into the Essenic version,
and a feminist. He also seems to believe they are dried up, hostile women,
and if they like other women, it's for lack of a penis. I, myself, am
bisexual. I'd have to agree more with Angelina Jolie's viewpoint on women
with women, when she said, in an interview, that it's a beautiful thing.